vapid

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Ayers comes off in the film as a vapid, slightly dopey, chronic juvenile with stunted powers of ethical reasoning.

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  1. adjective Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
  2. adjective Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.

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  • Now that the evidence is growing vapid, and the obstinacy of the military commission has lost its coarse zest, we may find enough readers to warrant a fuller sketch of the conspirators' prison. —  THE LIFE, CRIME, AND CAPTURE OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
  • Ayers comes off in the film as a vapid, slightly dopey, chronic juvenile with stunted powers of ethical reasoning. —  Jason Clarke's meta feed
  • Too many green strategies, and the messages behind them, are variously vague, vapid, or vacuous. —  GreenBiz.com Green Business News
  • I will give them some credit though for copying the vapid, cliché-ridden, uninteresting, uninformative, and unnecessary post-game press conference athlete-speak that we see in real life. —  The Hardball Times
  • Or make you love everything cute and cuddly and vapid: —  murderati
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insipid ·  banal ·  uninteresting ·  trivial ·  inane ·  puerile ·  tiresome ·  meaningless ·  frivolous ·  unmeaning ·  trite ·  stale
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin vapidus.

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  1. from Latin vapidus, that has exhaled its vapor, hence, flat, insipid; akin to vapor, steam, vapor: see vapor.
 

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